Nobody who knows about Apple’s Macintosh chooses to run Windows, they do it because they’re stuck.ĩ7% of enterprise Mac users say they’re more productive after upgrading from Windows. MacDailyNews Take: The only people who use Windows are those stuck with legacy apps, the ignorant, and the stupid. Or perhaps some enterprising company will put a PC on some flash drive-like USB-C device that can commandeer a future Mac’s keyboard and display, a more compact and powerful version of the Intel Compute Stick. Another alternative might be the growing host of options to access PCs in the cloud with low latency. The most likely outcome, then, is that a third party will ship an Apple-sanctioned emulator that will do a “good enough” job for niche tasks.

With Apple moving the Mac from Intel processors to its own Apple-designed ARM-based architecture over the next few years, what might that mean for Boot Camp or running Windows on a Mac in general? How will Macs run Windows apps? The transition to Apple silicon in the Mac will create a common architecture across all Apple products, making it far easier for developers to write and optimize software for the entire Apple ecosystem.Īll in all, it seems unlikely that Apple will have first-party support for running Windows on what could be more appliance-like ARM-based Macs.īut there will still be value in running Windows apps on Macs.

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